Businesses are entrusting more of their value to increasingly complex supply chains, dispersed across remote geographies around the world. As this complexity increases, so does the difficulty of keeping track of what can go wrong.

Businesses are entrusting more of their value to increasingly complex supply chains, dispersed across remote geographies around the world. As this complexity increases, so does the difficulty of keeping track of what can go wrong.

Deploying the right tools to identify and understand one-off spend can help generate immediate savings. But itâ€™s also the first step to more effective spend management and unlocking far greater governance.

Supplier discovery is a necessary and potentially cumbersome activity. But there are strategies, for the savvy executive, that can make use of tools, networks and relationships to create a painless process.